The Richest Man in the World----Bill Gates

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In the computer world, there is one man who is too influential to miss----Bill Gates. Do you know anything about him? Are you interested in his wealth, his life, and his key to success? Read the following text.

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The Richest Man in the World

Bill Gates is the richest private citizen in the world. There is nothing he can’t afford. Every morning, when his alarm clock goes off, the software tycoon is $ 20 million richer than when he went to bed. His wealth is based on his company, Miicrosoft, of which he owns 39% of the shares. He has a personal fortune estimated at￡18 billion which is more than the annual economic output of over a hundred countries.

He is not shy about spening it. He has built a mansion overlooking Lake Washington that he’s packed with high-tech gadgetry and TV monitors, some taking up an entire wall. Visitors are given a smart card encoded with their personal preferences, so that, as they wander from room to room, their favourite pictures will appear on the screens, and the music they like will play. The card is programmed so that only the most intimate friends can open all the doors.

This cold-blooded approach to human relationships also seems to be true of his love life. When he went out with an ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad, who is now a very successful businesswoman, the couple conducted much of their relationship by going on virtual dates. Each would drive alone to the same movie at the same time in different towns, and then talk about it afterwards on their mobiles, discussing the plots and exchanging opinions. When finally he got married, he and his wife, Melinda, signed an agreement that allows him to go on an annual holiday with his ex-lover, Ann, leaving his wife behind.

Gates has been called “King of the Nerds”, but this simply isn’t fair. In the ninth grade at school, he got A’s in all the subjects he took, which put him among the top ten students in the nation. Gates went on to Harvard University, where he managed to be in the same class as the girls he fancied by inserting a piece of software into the college computer. But he never finished college. When he left, he knew exactly what to do. He started up his own computer company.

The reason why Microsoft has been so successful is because Gates saw that his fortune lay in software, not hardware. He became a billionaire at 31, and since then Microsoft has created Windows, which is a system that can be run by clicking on icons with a mouse.

Now the multi-billionaire, whose software is used in two-thirds of the world’s computers, is developing the HPC, or hand-held personal computer. It is his intention that there should be a computer in the pocket of everybady in the whole world.